Kolkata

OWASP Kolkata

Welcome to the Kolkata chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Krishnendu Paul.
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Local News

1st Kolkata Chapter meeting held on 21st Dec'12

Agenda:-
1. OWASP Kolkata Chapter Website finalization.
2. OWASP Kolkata Chapter Domain Booking
3. Event planning for the 2013 Q1
4. Finalization of the probable event sponsors.

Everyone is welcome to join us at our chapter meetings.

#GeekCon - Kolkata Chapter Organized a Meetup cum Conference to build local awareness and membership on Friday the 13th June, 2014. 

Topics Covered:-
1. Anatomy of a Real life Data Breach ( Ayan Bhandari )
2. An introduction to Cryptography ( Kislay Sinha )
3. Who we are - and Why we are ? *Us* - Intro by Krishnendu Paul
4. Cyber Crime and Your Rights ( Shivam Gupta )
5. Questions / Debates / Future Plans / Help session for Students and Wanna be Security Professionals.
7. Meetup with veteran IT Professionals & Entrepreneurs to learn the future prospect of IT Security Industry

#SillyCloud - An AWS Hands On Workshop. on 9th Aug, 2014. For more details - check our website.

Topics Covered:-
1. Introduction to cloud concepts
2. Cloud advantages
3. Overview ofAWS main comonents : EC2, AMI, EBS, AUtoscaling, cloudwatch, ELB, S3, RDS, VPC, Security groups etc
4. Describe few Use cases
5. Getting hands on with AWS
a) Login in
b) Overview of console
c) Creating first EC2
d) Creating Win and Linux instance and then loggin into it
6. Deploying a LAMP stack from AMI and then use cloudwatch for monitoring and configure autoscaling
7. Security best practices
8. Create a 3 tier architecture in VPC+internet with VPN if possible
9. Talk about Cloud design principles ( If time permits )
a) Scaling
b) Loose couple
c) Elasticity
d) Design for failure
e) Security

#SillyAdda - A pure gossip/meetup/know-each-other for SillyCon Members . On 12th Oct, 2014. For more details - check our Facebook Group.

Agenda:-
1. Introduction to the team
2. Future Event Planning
3. Idea Sharing
4. Anything I am missing...

 Our members Participated at Infocom Hackstar 2.0 on 7th Dec, 2014 and ranked as 2nd runner-up. 

TEAM Members:-
1. Suman Kar
2. Rony Das

Guys - you are rock-star...

#SillyChilli - First Meetup of OWASP Kolkata 2015 ( 17th Jan, 2015 - 4PM-8PM ) with a Chilling Weather Outside. At Techno India Campus.

Topic Covered:-
1. Complete Anonymity - Are You ? An intro to DNS Proxy - Chiranjit Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Das
2. Shivering facts and story of Sony after getting hacked - Ayan Bhandari
3. Live exploiting to demonstrate Vulnerability on a very well-known Security Site ( 0day ). - Krishnendu Paul
4. Windows 7 UAC bypass by CHM files - Krishnendu Paul
6. Publishing a new Stub Builder as Open Source - coded by Nilan Saha
7. Meeting with few industry veterans on Information Security Domain to know about Future Market.

And a hour long #SillyAdda come discussion session and networking session with some snacks

#LoveTheSilly - It's February, Love is on the air. Let's meetup and show some love to our passion At Techno India Campus on 28th Feb, 2015 - 2PM-8PM .

Topics:-
1. "Ghost Buster" - A Discussion about Latest Ghost Vulnerability of glibc by Abhijit Chatterjee.

2. Forensic Analysis of Local Dropbox account artifacts with Demonstration - by Swasti Bhushan Deb

3. "Cookie Sookies" - a session about session hijacking and cookie stealing by Rashid Feroz

4. Mobile App Penetration Testing or Developing Exploit using Python / Ruby @Syed from TCS

5. Chief Information Security Officer of KPMG India Krishnendu De will be sharing some insight of the Cyber Security Industry with us.
( We are honored )

6. Web Services Penetration Testing by Abhijit Chatterjee
More topics will be announced soon.

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